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What should we make of the growth of gig work? Amanda Lang on the big labour market trends heading into 2024

A food delivery worker rides an electric bike in downtown Vancouver, on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. Darryl Dyck?The Canadian Press.

This is the fifteenth episode of The Hub’s bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang. The two discuss some big labour market trends in Canada as we enter 2024 including the rise of “gig work”, the growth in the federal government’s employment footprint, and whether Canadian workers will face pressure to return to the office more regularly in the coming year.

You can listen to this episode of Hub Dialogues on AcastAmazonAppleGoogleSpotify, and YouTube. The episodes are generously supported by The Ira Gluskin And Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation and The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation.

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